Dropping Gimp from the live cd

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 16:50 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> On 08/05/2009 03:37 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 10:00 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> >> On 08/04/2009 09:51 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >>>
> >>> This has been proposed independently, on the grounds that it is not a
> >>> very good fit for the live cd audience anyway (where we probably at most
> >>> need the occasional photo touch ups), and its UI is somewhat
> >>> unconventional.
> >>>
> >>> There is probably not going to be any alternative to this step, due to
> >>> the hard size limits, but I'd like to give people a chance to comment
> >>> first, anyway. So, comments ?
> >>
> >> Can you please define the audience of the Live CD? It is the disk we
> >> usually handle to people coming at various events to advertise Fedora
> >> and honestly I don't feel comfortable spreading discs with no useful
> >> applications on them.
> >
> > But we didn't remove the useful application: firefox is still in :-)
> 
> So i take the target audience of this spin is people using applications 
> in the "cloud" (web services)?

No, I was making a joke.

But I do believe that a browser is the most important application to
include for any audience.